Chapter 3 Storm (Nine Seconds)

For a moment, the atmosphere in the entire conference room was extremely strange. Almost every general who saw the document was struck by lightning, and instantly stiffened. Then the next person closest to him quickly picked up the document from the table and repeated the previous scene again. He was instantly struck by lightning, and then passed down one by one, losing his ability to speak and move, and sat in the chairs, letting the cold sweat on his forehead drip down.

Yan Xishan wants to vote for the sun.

The commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, Yan Xishan, the vice chairman of the Military Commission, secretly sent his confidant to the Japanese. The commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army of the National Revolutionary Army secretly contacted the Japanese for surrendering. This was a bolt from the blue, and the entire Northern Army was stunned. You know, although the Northern Army is basically in a state of "self-establishing a door" now, Yan Xishan's influence in this team is still very huge. Last year, Fu Zuoyi decisively gave all the Eighth Route Army cadres he invited to "gift out of the country" because he could not continue to withstand Yan Xishan's pressure.

Not only that, in the entire National Government, Yan Xishan's status was only ranked behind two giants Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren. If he led his troops to cooperate with the Japanese, the attack on China's current anti-Japanese war will be no less than that of the treason of the Kuomintang Vice President Wang Jingwei, who made a treason on the treason. After all, Wang Jingwei has been responsible for party affairs for many years and does not have much military power. However, under Yan Xishan, he commanded nearly 140,000 troops from the sixth and seventh armies, and also has a large number of disciples and old friends in the 20th army originally belonging to the Jin clan. (Note 1, Note 2)

To put it more directly, if Yan Xishan completely turned to the Japanese invaders, more than half of the Chinese army fighting north of the Yangtze River would directly become puppet troops. The Fu Zuoyi army, which was originally from the Jin clan, was now dependent on the Seventh Army, would completely fall into an isolated state of no help. Except for the 18th Army, which had just cut off his robe, there would be no allies in the entire Northern China.

I don’t know how long it took to be silent, but Fu Zuoyi slowly recovered his energy. He looked up and saw that Anhuating’s adjutant Wang Haicheng was still standing in the middle of the conference room at a loss, so he forced a smile and ordered the person: “Okay, you have nothing to do with you. Go back and tell Teacher An, “I have received the box, and I will remember all his feelings in my heart. When I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely ask the central government for his merits.”

"Yes." Wang Haicheng agreed very loudly, but his steps did not move at all. Instead, he bent down and tentatively tentatively, "Report to Chief Fu, before coming, our commander has one more thing. I must report to you in person, I don't know."

"Tell me." Fu Zuoyi frowned and ordered in a deep voice, "Captain Lu, you know Commander Dong, Commander Sun, Commander Li and others, and they are not outsiders. There is no need to hide anything about our Northern Army from them."

"Then, that" Wang Haicheng looked at Fu Zuoyi pitifully, hoping to get a chance to report alone. Seeing that the latter had never stood up, he had to make up his mind and said loudly, "Then, I'll just say it straight. Our division commander said that Wang Ying, the commander-in-chief of the Suixi puppet army, was defeated the day before yesterday, and slipped away from his eyes on a raft. At that time, he was soft-hearted and did not order the shooting to sink the raft. Now he regretted it and was willing to accept any punishment from Chief Fu."

"Ba." Fu Zuoyi was so angry that he slapped the table hard, and stood up. Then, he laughed bitterly again and shook his head, "Doing, how do I deal with him? Why should I deal with him? Wang Ying had the kindness of knowing him back then, and he didn't want to let Wang Ying die without a burial place. Isn't that human nature? Forget it, go back and tell him that this matter has ended here. I don't want to see the next time, and he must not come with me again."

"Yisheng, this matter needs to be discussed for a long time and you cannot draw conclusions." Chief of Staff Lu Yinglin heard this and quickly stopped it loudly. It is a serious crime to privately swear an enemy chief, especially a hard-core traitor like Wang Ying. No matter who or what reason he is, he must be investigated to the end. If Fu Zuoyi does not deal with Anhuting today, if the matter is revealed in the future, he will be a target for Anhuting and become the target of criticism by the national media. The image of the entire Northern Army's ace in the War of Resistance will be covered with a thick layer of dust.

"Forget it." Fu Zuoyi continued to shake his head and smile bitterly, disheartened, "Wang Ying is just a waste. He captured him and wasted food. Why not let him go back and continue to harm the Japanese. Anyway, we have beaten him twice and fled alone, so we don't care about fighting again next time."

"This" Lu Yinglin hesitated for a moment, feeling very unwilling. However, seeing the haggard expression on Fu Zuoyi's face, he forced the words to swallow back his dissuasion.

"There is also Tao Ketao, let your commander let it go first." Fu Zuoyi forced himself not to look at the disappointed eyes of the generals under his command, and continued to order Wang Haicheng, "When you go back, tell him that the Japanese have to think carefully before making a decision to redeem the engineer's proposal."

"Yes, my subordinates will definitely bring the words, and I will definitely bring them." Wang Haicheng was overjoyed and greeted a not-standard military salute. He ran down happily to report to his uncle An Huating. Fu Zuoyi personally sent him out of the conference room, turned around, closed the door tightly, "Bang."

"Bang." The heavy sound of closing the door was repeated over the heads of everyone. Lu Yinglin, Dong Qiwu, Li Mingding, Sun Lanfeng and other senior generals of the Northern Army raised their confused eyes one by one, looking at their elder brother, their sadness and anger could not be concealed.

"By relying on Tao Ketao's own evidence, I cannot determine whether this information is true." As if I wanted to keep all the interference outside the door, Fu Zuoyi leaned against the door of the conference room, closed his eyes, and explained in unconvincing language. "Just relying on a piece of information that is difficult to distinguish the authenticity, Commander Yan was pushed into a place of irreparable consequences. Fu did not dare and could not bear to do it."

"Then, then Fu Yisheng will be willing to be threatened by Anhuating." Sun Lanfeng, the commander of the newly compiled 31st Division, stood up and asked Fu Zuoyi's name to question. In his eyes, Anhuoting, a leader of the puppet army who came over, should have been the target of disarming and clearing. Fu Zuoyi promoted him without grudges and used him to rekindle him, and made him rekindled his kindness. However, Anhuoting secretly let the traitor Wang Ying go and exchanged information about Yan Xishan's secret contact with the Japanese to exchange for Fu Zuoyi's re-enactment of the matter. It was simply a rebellious thing. If he tolerated this person this time, he would have to tolerated it for the second time and the third time until he was turned against him and bullied directly on his head.

"Wanjiu, Leng, Jing." Dong Qiwu, who was sitting opposite Sun Lanfeng, also stood up and called Sun Lanfeng's words to refute, "General Yisheng did the right thing. Even if Commander Yan is wrong, after all, he had the kindness of being a bandit in Anhuating. He still knew that he would let his former boss Wang Ying go, and we can't be inferior to a bandit."

"You are for your private grace and ignore the national justice." Sun Lanfeng turned his finger to Dong Qiwu without hesitation and retorted loudly, "If the Japanese have kindness to you, do you have to turn around and become a puppet army? If Commander Yan ordered you to surrender to the Japanese, would you immediately fight against us? My Sun said this today. No matter who cooperated with the Japanese, Sun would be irreconcilable with him. As for the private grace that year, Sun drove away the Japanese and then committed suicide in front of his grave."

These words were a bit too heavy, and Dong Qiwu was immediately excited and his eyes turned red, "Sun Wanjiu, what do you mean? Whoever wants to surrender to the Japanese, who would unconditionally obey any orders from Commander Yan? Who would you like to be mortal with? When it comes to killing the Japanese, who is not less than your Sun Wanjiu."

"Whoever ignores the national justice, I am irreconcilable with you? If there is no ghost in your heart, what kind of rank will you be? "

"You Sun Wanjiu's bloody mouth swears."

"You Dong Qiwu is not right or wrong."

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Seeing the two of them quarreling and going to stage a full martial arts show, Chief of Staff Lu Yinglin quickly came forward to dissuade him, "Okay, okay, I'll say less, don't talk about anything unrestrictive. Who among us, who doesn't have the lives of ten or eight Japanese devils, may he bend his knees to the Japanese again?"

"Yes, Commander Yan is Commander Yan, and our Northern Army is the Northern Army. Even if we were a family, we had already passed the separate orders and no one would have involved." Li Dingming, the commander of the 32nd Division, also stood up and whispered.

Although he didn't say much, he suddenly came to the point. Although the Northern Army was born in the Jinsui clan, it was the least popular among the entire Jinsui clan. Not only did the latter wantonly withhold the food and wages to the Northern Army, but he also claimed in public many times that the Northern Army had long been "red" and that Fu Zuoyi was suspected of communism. Even the nickname "Seven and a half" was originally out of the mouth of "Yan Xishan", which had a great negative impact on the entire Northern Army and even the Suiyuan area.

The reason why the Northern Army has not been merciless with Yan Xishan until now is that it is a group of generals led by Fu Zuoyi, who are still thinking about Yan Xishan's past love. However, it would be a dream to say that Yan Xishan could bring the entire Northern Army to the Japanese with his personal influence. First of all, Fu Zuoyi himself would not allow such a thing to happen. Secondly, the Northern Army and the Japanese have fought fiercely for years, and I don't know how many brothers have sacrificed their lives for the country. The hatred between the enemy and us has long been irreconcilable. If someone dares to call everyone to kneel to the Japanese pirates, there is no need to ask, the result must be that he was shot into a hornet's nest.

"That's right, Chief Sun, Chief Dong, and Commander Yan do it, it has nothing to do with us. We don't need to argue about Commander Yan first." Several other senior generals also interrupted, following Li Mingding's wishes and reassured both sides in the dispute.

"That's right, we're in a mess here, and I'm afraid the Japanese are the happiest people."

Everyone, I finally comforted Sun Lanfeng and Dong Qiwu. Looking at the highest commander here, Fu Zuoyi, I saw that the latter was still leaning against the door, his face as blue as iron cast.

"Yisheng, there is room for recovery for this matter." Knowing that Yan Xishan's private collusion with the Japanese army had a heavy blow to Fu Zuoyi, Chief of Staff Lu Yinglin must speak again to relieve his old friends. "Think about the old commander's personality, if the Japanese don't give him enough practical benefits, just relying on his empty words and white teeth, will he be like Wang Jingwei immediately impatient to surrender? I want me to see, both sides must have a few more talks, and during this period, the situation may still change."

"Yes, we have to talk about it for three or five times." Fu Zuoyi seemed to have been drained of strength, repeating lazily. Just now, Sun Lanfeng and Dong Qiwu were verbally fighting in the conference room. He was not struggling violently. A voice firmly told him that Dayi and private grace could not be taken into account. Now he should immediately forward Tao Ketao's secret report to the Chongqing government by urgent telegram, and then join forces with Chongqing, Shang Zhen's 20th Army, and the Eighth Route Army, who had just cut off his robe and cut off his robe. , quickly forced Yan Xishan to retreat to the second line, so as not to really go to the evil path, bringing great disasters to the country and the nation. However, there was also a voice who kept refuting, telling him the gentleman's way of being a gentleman, the kindness of Yan Xishan's knowledge and support, and the contempt in the eyes of the world after "betraying" the old commander. After all, if Yan Xishan does a day as a teacher for life, no matter how bad Yan Xishan is, he is also his elder of Fu Zuoyi. No matter what, he should not be ruined by Fu Zuoyi's hands, (Note 3)

"So, what we should do now is not to deliberately help Commander Yan conceal this matter, nor to immediately expose the matter." Lu Yinglin was anxious when he saw it. While continuing to give Fu Zuoyi a happy pill, he was trying to solve it. Not to mention, he really found a solution. "If you want me to see, we might as well suppress this information first, and then immediately find every way to make Commander Yan unable to reach an agreement with the Japanese. In this way, it is worthy of the nation and the country, and allows Commander Yan to avoid the future ruin. Isn't it the best of both worlds?"

"To be honest, Commander Yan has always been very good at playing tricks, so he is not so easily influenced by us." Sun Lanfeng was still unable to let go of Fu Zuoyi's actions of covering up An Huating, and cursed his lips and scolded him disdainfully.

"That's not necessarily. Our Commander Yan believes in the philosophy of survival." Lu Yinglin did not think it was offended at all. He smiled and continued, "If I guessed correctly, the incident where he sent General Zhao Chengshou to contact the Japanese should have happened before the Wuyuan Battle. We just gave the Japanese a blow. The old man should be able to see that the Japanese are exhausted. If we continue to win two more battles, or the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army recently launched two decent counterattacks, I can guarantee that Commander Yan will immediately reconsider the cooperation with the Japanese. At least, the price he offered will rise step by step, even so high that the Japanese cannot afford them."

Note 1: The traitor Wang Jingwei defected to the Japanese war zone at the end of 1938, and published a telegram ending as the vice president of the Kuomintang, announcing cooperation with the Japanese invaders to save the country peacefully.

Note 2: The 20th Army belonged to Shang Zhen's direct line, and Shang Zhen was originally Yan Xishan's beloved general, but later defected to Chiang Kai-shek because he was dissatisfied with Yan Xishan's narrow and changeable personality.
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